Wednesday, June 23, 2010

We have a cherry tree in our backyard. We moved into our house 2 years ago and this is the first time we have picked the cherries from the tree. To be honest, I wasn't even sure what kind of cherries they were and if they were edible. But when I saw the neighbors across the street picking the cherries from their trees, I thought we should do that too! Many recipes for fruit crisps have a lot of sugar, butter and other fattening components. I really wanted the focus to be on the cherries and I also wanted it to be low fat/low cal. So this recipe is definitely not the rich, decadent crisp or cobbler type recipe that is typical. It just gives you the taste of the toasted oat mixture on top with the main event really being the cherries. I topped it with some So Delicious vanilla ice cream and it turned out great! Here's the recipe.